Ukrainian Underpants
This is a hypothetical game of 6mm Cold War Commander set some time in 2015. The premise is that Russian forces have entered Ukraine and the EU have sent a force (UFOR) to stop them after the local forces take a beating.
Our game sees a Russian battlegroup comprising mainly of T-72s, with a few T90s, attempting to capture a large hill for an OP position, as the land around is fairly open. A small UFOR force has to stop them. UFOR has three battlegroups comprising of British Challengers, German Leopards and French Leclercs, with a French infantry company mounted in AMX-10P IFVs in support.
The table. The wooded hill on the left is the Russian objective. (Sorry, the gradients aren't obvious in this picture!)
UFOR enter the table, with the Germans on the left on the road, the French in the middle, and the British on the right.
The German Leopards advance.
The T-90 unit are the first Russians on table, and the set up shop on the ridge, covering the UFOR advance.
The slower British Challangers make their way up on the UFOR right flank...
...while the French move up the center, trying to get the ATGW rockets on the IFVs into range.
The second Russian battlegroup (comprising of T-72s) comes on round the hill to the left of the T-90 position (you can just see one of them at the top of the picture).
The Leopards come under fire from the AT rockets mounted on the T-90s, disrupting their advance.
The French IFVs start dinging hits into the T-90s on the hill with their rockets, which the T-72s send rockets back at the Leclercs (which under my command I foolishly ordered them to shoot despite being out of range. I did this twice before I remembered to move them forward).
The second unit of T-72s arrive in perfect arrowhead formation. Unfortunately slightly late due to both Russian subordinate commanders having terrible command rolls to get onto the table.
The Leclercs and Leopards finally get the range and start to pound the T-90s, taking them out or pushing them back behind the ridge. Then they start on the T-72s.
Both T-72 units start firing on the Challangers which are finally entering the fray, damaging and suppressing two of them.
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In a stunning run of multiple fire actions (if I do say so myself) the Leclercs finish off the T-72s.
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The Leopards are badly mauled by the T-90s...
...and the T-72s take out two of the Challengers with massed fire.
The Germans take another battering and lose a Leopard, and at that point time was called as the Russians felt that they didn't have enough left on the table to mount a serious thrust for the hill. Bear in mind the French battlegroup was practically intact and was covering the remaining T-90s with their ATGW rockets! Unfortunately due to the size of the models pictures don't tend to do much justice for 6mm modern armour games!